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Aligning the Eyes of the Universe Machine

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The James Webb Space Telescope , in just a few months of operation, has begun to change our view of the universe. So, for me, the place to be was at a computer console [at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore]. You're trying to piece together the universe. And then there were a lot of things that had to work.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969. To sit at a terminal and with a few keystrokes be connected through the TIP, to the ARPANET, and then to applications running on computers at dozens of universities and research facilities must have felt like a visit to an alien world.

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